Canberra: Representative Karma Singey of the Office of Tibet, Canberra, attended the launch of the Murals of Tibet exhibition held on 18 June at The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Victoria.

The launch event brought together many distinguished guests, including Mayor of Bendigo Thomas Prince, Chairman of the Great Stupa Ian Green OAM, Resident Spiritual Teacher at Atisha Centre Geshe Rabten, and Dr David Kram of the Bendigo Interfaith Council, along with friends and well-wishers of Tibet.

In his remarks, Ian Green welcomed guests and outlined the exhibition, noting that it enables visitors to experience life-size, high-resolution reproductions of some of Tibet’s most precious surviving Buddhist wall paintings presented in the Murals of Tibet book. Mayor Thomas Prince praised the Great Stupa’s spiritual and cultural activities and its role in promoting intercultural understanding and expressed his honour at attending the event.

Representative Karma Singey expressed his appreciation to all those who made the exhibition possible and conveyed his hope that it would encourage visitors to develop a deeper understanding of the Tibetan Buddhist values of peace and compassion. He also thanked the author of the Murals of Tibet book, Thomas Laird, who joined the event via video link and shared insights from his extensive travels across the Tibetan Plateau and his photographic documentation of hundreds of sacred Tibetan Buddhist murals.

The Murals of Tibet book will remain on display at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, allowing visitors to view its photographic documentation of ancient Tibetan Buddhist murals and deepen their understanding of Tibet’s artistic and spiritual heritage.

-Report filed by Office of Tibet, Canberra